Polls and Polling Data

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Press provides an integrated search environment for obtaining analysis on Congressional issues in the news and coverage of the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. This database searches the full-text of CQ Magazine, CQ Researcher, CQ Historic Documents, contact directories, a variety of reference books, and selected datasets focused on issues in U.S. politics and areas of public policy, such as, health care, education, economics, bioethics, environment, and society. Contents are created by more than 125 Capitol Hill reporters, editors, and researchers to provide non-partisan coverage and detailed analysis of issues facing Congress.

Monitors societal change and studies growing complexity of American society by collecting data for comparative analysis used by legislators, policymakers, researchers, educators and others. National Opinion Research Center's principal funding from the National Science Foundation. Tools available to explore and save variables from comprehensive data sets, facilitate online analysis before extracting for use in statistical software package.
[Coverage: 1972-present]

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR acquires, preserves, and distributes original research data. This site links to training and curricular material, and a database which provides access to publications based on ICPSR data holdings. More information on ICPSR and other social science data are available from the Social Science Data Service

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is an archive of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys. The Roper Center holds polling data ranging from the 1930s to the present and over 22,000 datasets adding hundreds more each year.